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juancho

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Re: [SOLVED] Devuan 5 not booting.

I'm going to try it, will Gparted allow me to do it?

rolfie

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Re: [SOLVED] Devuan 5 not booting.

Sure, select Device in the gparted menu.

juancho

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Re: [SOLVED] Devuan 5 not booting.

Can this be done without losing data in /home?

rolfie

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Re: [SOLVED] Devuan 5 not booting.

No. Writing a new partitioning scheme will delete all partitions on the drive. If you have data on /home make sure you have a backup that you can play back.

juancho

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Re: [SOLVED] Devuan 5 not booting.

Thanks Rolfie, i will try an report.

       Cheers...

              juancho

ralph.ronnquist

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Re: [SOLVED] Devuan 5 not booting.

Note that UEFI bios is 32-bit software so booting may have difficulties with an EFI partition beyond 4G byte address. The general advice is always to have that partition first on the disk (i.e. starting at a 1M = 2048 sectors offset).

juancho

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Re: [SOLVED] Devuan 5 not booting.

Thanks Ralph, I'll keep that in mind. I need to backup /home first, but Devuan live refuses, so I'll try some other live cd and report back as soon as possible.

Cheers...

juancho

alexkemp

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Registered: 2018-05-14

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Re: [SOLVED] Devuan 5 not booting.

fwiw I've currently got Devuan 5 on an EFI (former Windows) desktop computer which works well. This is the structure:-

$ tree -d /boot
/boot
├── efi
│   ├── boot
│   │   └── grub
│   │       └── x86_64-efi
│   └── EFI
│       └── debian
└── grub
    ├── fonts
    ├── locale
    └── x86_64-efi

11 directories
$ df -hT
Filesystem     Type      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev           devtmpfs  3.6G     0  3.6G   0% /dev
tmpfs          tmpfs     736M 1016K  735M   1% /run
/dev/sda2      ext4      909G  834G   76G  92% /
tmpfs          tmpfs     5.0M   12K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
tmpfs          tmpfs     3.0G   75M  2.9G   3% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1      vfat      511M   49M  463M  10% /boot/efi
tmpfs          tmpfs     736M   20K  736M   1% /run/user/1000
$ df /boot /boot/efi -hT
Filesystem     Type  Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2      ext4  909G  834G   76G  92% /
/dev/sda1      vfat  511M   49M  463M  10% /boot/efi
$ neofetch
   ..,,;;;::;,..                   alexk@ng3 
           `':ddd;:,.              --------- 
                 `'dPPd:,.         OS: Devuan GNU/Linux 5 (daedalus) x86_64 
                     `:b$$b`.      Model: 90BJ008CUK Lenovo H30-05 
                        'P$$$d`    Kernel: 6.1.0-23-amd64 
                         .$$$$$`   Uptime: 7 days, 21 hours, 20 mins 
                         ;$$$$$P   Packages: 3169 (dpkg) 
                      .:P$$$$$$`   Shell: bash 5.2.15 
                  .,:b$$$$$$$;'    Resolution: 1920x1080 
             .,:dP$$$$$$$$b:'      DE: Xfce 4.18 
      .,:;db$$$$$$$$$$Pd'`         WM: Xfwm4 
 ,db$$$$$$$$$$$$$$b:'`             WM Theme: Default 
:$$$$$$$$$$$$b:'`                  Theme: Clearlooks-Phenix-Sapphire [GTK2] 
 `$$$$$bd:''`                      Icons: oxygen [GTK2] 
   `'''`                           Terminal: xfce4-terminal 
                                   Terminal Font: Monospace 12 
                                   CPU: AMD A8-7410 APU with AMD Radeon R5 Graphics (4) @ 2.200GHz 
                                   GPU: AMD ATI Radeon R4/R5 Graphics 
                                   Memory: 3815MiB / 7356MiB

juancho

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Registered: 2024-08-16

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Re: [SOLVED] Devuan 5 not booting.

Good afternoon people.

First of all I want to thank Rolfie, Andre, Ralph, Stargate and Alex for all the help they have given me. With that help I have managed to get the machine to boot in text mode, in the boot messages it appears:

"ERROR amdgpu requires firmware installed"

This is something else that has never happened to me before, so I'm wondering if someone could tell me how to install the firmware from the terminal in text mode.

Cheers...

juancho.

rolfie

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Re: [SOLVED] Devuan 5 not booting.

Refer to posts #10 and #12 in this thread.

juancho

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Re: [SOLVED] Devuan 5 not booting.

Thanks Rolfie, I had forgotten that, now the machine boots in graphical mode without problems, I really appreciate the attention and I'm going to mark this post as solved.

Cheers...

juancho

rolfie

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Re: [SOLVED] Devuan 5 not booting.

You are welcome.